This is where they established their repulsion.
Reputation? Just making sure I'm not reading this wrong.
The Marines being Stationed on ships, and being Attached to fleets are 2 different things. The Marines in this war were Stationed on Naval escort ships, which were Attached to that merchant fleet. As Escorts.
There's not a lot of hard Fact here as much as Perspective. No, we weren't at war with Islam, but yes we did do some pretty sketchy shit to protect our capitalist interests in every war in the region since. Honestly, Islam has fuckall to do it, and Saint Thomas of Monticello owned the Quran because he was a Scholar. He also owned a bible he edited in his own hand, literally cutting and pasting to say what he wanted it to politically. He also wrote back to the Danbury Baptist Association:
[To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.]
Fortunately, we don't have to speak for Jefferson, because he was an eloquent statesman with a vast
library of his collected opinion. No where did he say, in his own words that Islam is an evil that the world would better be rid of, and if he believed that, I would think he would have written it down somewhere. That's the kinda guy he was.